Cake-soap holder.



PATBNTED MAR. 12, 1907.

P. F. 00X.l CAKE SOAP HOLDER.

APPLIUATION FILED DBO. 18. 1906.

Uurrnn seitens ra s vPAUL FLEMMING ook, or BATTLE CREEK, MICHIGAN.

CAKE-SOAP Homme.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented March 12, 1907.

Application filed December 18I i906. Serial No. 348,404.

To all whom, it muy concern.'

This invention is a novel soap-holding at.- taclmient for faucets of Washst-ands; and its object is to provide a simple, neat, and attractive device which can be attached to the ends of this slot, as at 1f, so as to prevent the faucets or spouts ofordinary washstands for the purpose of connecting cakes of soap thereto and While holding the soap out of the Way when not in use permitting the ready l use thereof .by persons desiring to Wash and at same time preventing pet-ty thieves stealing the soap.

Another obj ect is to provide a soap-holding device which can be easily attached to the ordinary faucet of a Wash basin or stand Without defacing the stand or requiring any special tools and Wit-'hout requiring any` additional supports or uprightsv to enable the de'- vice to be applied to the stand.v

The invention consists in the novel construction of the device, as hereinafter described position.

and claimed, and the accompanying drawings and following description thereof will impart a clear understanding of the invention.

In said drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of the device applied to a faucet, shoW- ing the holder raised in full lines and lowered 1 in dotted lines.

Fig. 2 is a transverse section through the complete holder; and Fig. 3 is a j 4b, if desired.

transverse section on line 3 3,- Fig. 2. vFig. 1t is a detail perspective of the bracket and casmg.

The device comprises'a supporting-bracket or loop 1, which is provided With an opening large enough to allow it to be 'readily slipped onto the ordinary faucet F of a Washstand IV,

which may be of any desired construction. In the upper part of the opening is a longitu- 1 dinal tl-shaped groove l, which is adapted to touch at two points upon the uppe'r part of t-he faucet, and 1n the opening is a removable g clamp block 2,

rovided with a groove 2?,

in its upper si e, preferably serrated,

shown, and adapt-ed to be forcedupwardly open end fits over and around the edges of flange 1d, and a slot is formed in the lower side of the casing, the flange Ild engaging the casing turning upon the screw 1e. Access can be had to screw le through an opening 1g in the opposite Wall of the bracket when the latter is removed from the faucet and the clampblock is removed from the slot.4 VVit-hin the .casing is a rotatable annulus 4, which practically closes the slot in the under side of the casing. Within the annulus is a .coiled spring 5, one end of which is fast to the casing and the other end to the annulus, so as to controlthe position of the annulus Within the casing and cause it to return to a certain normal posit-ion therein if rotated to another rIhe annulus is provided with a finger 4, which extends through the slot in t-he casing and projects outwardly beyond the periphery ol' the casing, as shown.

Through the projecting end of the finger #la passes a rod 6, Which may have a head 6b on its lower end and an eye 6L on its upper end to prevent its Withdrawal from the finger. The rod 6 can be locked in any adjusted position on the finger by means of a. set-screw The upper end of rod 6 is preferably bent to. one side, so that the cake of soap suspended therefrom will, clear the faucet and casing. As shown, a flexible suspending device, suc-h as a chain 7, is attached to the eye 6a of the rod 6 and has a ring 7J1 on its lower end, to Which a cake of soap S can be attached by any suitable suspending device. As shown, the cake of soap S is transixed by a rod 8, having a head 8a on its lower end and an eye 8b in Vits uppern end, and through this eye passes the hasp 9a of a lock 9, which also transfixes a ring 7a on the lower end of chain 7, and thus the soap caribe securely connected against the under side of the faucet by means to the suspending device, so that it cannot be o a 'blind-screw 1b, which is tapped through the lower wall of the. bracket, as shown.

removed by sneak4 thieves.

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A Washer 8d may be strung on rod 8 above thensoap to prevent water working into the soap around' the rod.

powerful enough to swing the rod into s uch position,as indicatedl in full lines in Fig. 1', even when loaded with an attached cake of soap, so that the soap is heldpabove the basin and out of the Way, yet a person desiring to use the soap can grasp it and lower it into the water in the basin1f desired, as indicated in dotted lines, Fig. 1, 'but as soon 'as re leased the soap is swung back out of the way. Thus the soap isl kept in convenient position,

readily accessible at all timesand yet cpan-l of the surface of thestand taken up by the holder-fixtures.

,I lHaving described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by* Letters Patent, iSvy 1. In a soap-holder, the combination of a casing constructed to be attached to a faucet, a rotatory annulus inithe casing, a, spring within the annulus and adapted to move it.

in one direction, a rod connected to said annulus, and a lsoap-suspending device connected to the outer end of the'rod.

2. In a soap-holder, the combination of' a The s ring 5 normally rotates; annulus 4 inte position lto hold rod 6 upright, and4 is bracket constructed and adapted to be de tachably attached toa faucet, a casing attached to the bracket, arotatable member i in the casing, a s ring Within the member adapted to move t emember to`one position, a rod connectedto said member, and a fiexiouter end of the rod.

3. In a soap-holdenthe combination-of a` casing having a slot in its periphery, a hollow member within theHf-easing-provided with a finger projecting out of the slot, a' coiled spring Within the member havingone endettached to the'member 1and the other to the' casing, a rod connected tothe finger, a fiexile soap-suspending device connected to the ble device connected to the outer end of the y rod, and means for attaching a cake of soap to thedevice. f l

4. In a soap-holder, the combination of av casing constructed and adaptedto be removably attached to a faucet and having a slot in its periphery, a rotatable annulus within the casing provided with a finger pro'ecting out of the s ot, a coiled spring within the annulus havin one end attached to the annulus and the ot er.A end vattached to thecasing, a rod connected to the finger, a chain connected to l the upper end ofthe rod, and means for attaching a cake of soa to fthechain. n y y, In testimony that claim thel foregoing as myown I affix-my signature vin -presence of PAUL' FLEMM'ING COX.

Witnesses:

`AJosnrn L. Cox,

-1 READE.

two Witnesses. 

